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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last| Contents| Next Issue 52 The Case Against Israel Michael Neumann Oakland (US): CounterPunch, $15 Edinburgh (UK): AK Press, £10, 2005 The Power of Israel in the United States James Petras Atlanta and Black Point: Clarity Press and Fernwood Books, 2006, $16.95 Reviewed by Tom Easton In a year in which Israel's attacks on Lebanon and Gaza were accompanied by more stories of New Labour loans and the arrest (twice) of Tony Blair's fundraiser and Middle East 'envoy' Lord Levy, it would have been good to have seen British publications examining how Israel is ...
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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 57) Summer 2009 Last| Contents| Next Issue 57 America, Israel and the Israel lobby Simon Matthews The Israel Lobby John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt London: Allen Lane, 2007, £25 This account of the relationship between the 'Israel lobby' in the US, the US state and Israel should be required reading for anyone with an interest personal, professional or political in the troubled affairs of the Middle East. The authors, both of whom are academics, and both of whom support the right of Israel to exist, have produced an extremely interesting, detailed and carefully researched work. The publication of this book ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 420 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-09.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 57) Summer 2009 Last| Contents| Next Issue 57 The Jewish Holocaust: held captive by its remembrance or liberated by its lessons? Tom Easton Israel, the Jews, and the West: The Fall and Rise of Antisemitism William D Rubinstein London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2008, £10.00 The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise from its Ashes Avraham Burg New York: Palgrave Macmillan, £15.99 A Time To Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity Edited by Anne Karpf, Brian Klug, Jacqueline Rose and Barbara Rosenbaum London: Verso, 2008, £9.99 In times like these we need ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 293 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-34.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 43) Summer 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 43 Blair and Israel In January 1994, three months before John Smith's death, the then shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair, with wife Cherie Booth, went on a trip to Israel at the Israeli government's expense- a trip, incidentally, neither the Sopel nor Rentoul biographies of Blair mentioned. (1) Blair had always been sympathetic to Israel, had shared chambers with Board of Deputies of British Jews President Eldred Tabachnik, (2) and had joined the Labour Friends of Israel on becoming an MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 241 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-09.htm
... Contents Israel, the lobby and its critics If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew Mike Marqusee London and Brooklyn: Verso, £9.99 (UK) 137 Winter 2010 'This Time We Went Too Far': Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion Norman G. Finkelstein New York: O R Books, £12 War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America James Petras Atlanta: Clear Day Books, $15 Europe's Alliance With Israel: Aiding the occupation David Cronin London: Pluto, £17.99 Tom Easton One of the more heartening developments in this chilly political climate is the growth of Jewish groups and individuals speaking out and organising against ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 219 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-137.pdf
... in mind. Paul Lindley, the former US Congressman, wrote in his They Dare To Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront the Israeli Lobby (Lawrence Hill& Co 1986): 'During the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980, columnist Jack Anderson quoted "US intelligence reports", actually supplied by the Israeli embassy by way of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that the PLO had mined the embassy to frustrate any rescue attempt by the United States. The intelligence reports proved to be bogus.' It will be remembered that the failure of US President Jimmy Carter to rescue the hostages had an important bearing on his defeat by Ronald Reagan and it is on this final decade ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 144 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-03.htm
... Rawnsley's book, Servants of the People. The Serbs may have intended doing this, but the 'plan' shown to the western media, complete with handy little illustrations, was a fake. Well, there it is again, this time cited by Paddy Ashdown, on p. 412 of the second volume of his diary. Labour and Israel In Lobster 44 I noted that it had been reported in The Times that Stephen Byers MP was hoping to make a political comeback by becoming chair of the Labour Friends of Israel (LFI). In the event that failed. I was interested to read an article by Byers in the Guardian 15 March 2004 (4) which he ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 139 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-26.htm
... , might start with this – <www.yeovil-libdems.org.uk/news/press/1305.htm> – from his recent Yeovil election campaign. Vanunu L ittle reported in most of the Western press was the jailing once again of Mordechai Vanunu following a May decision by the Israeli Supreme Court. Vanunu, who served 11 of his 18- year sentence for revealing Israel nuclear secrets to The Sunday Times in solitary confinement, was released in 2004. But after speaking to the foreign media in 2007 he was re- arrested and, after a lengthy trial, was sentenced to community service. Vanunu refused to carry this out beyond the boundaries of Arab east Jerusalem, the only part of the country where ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 112 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-086.pdf
... GM food manufacturer. A spokesman for Syngenta stated, with a straight face:'[Mr Bennett] will play a key role in framing and implementing Syngenta's commitment to improving the livelihood of poor farmers.' (Guardian 14 September 2002.) Presumably by persuading them to buy GM products made by his new employer. New Labour and Israel In Lobster 43, p. 9, I referred to Tony Blair's membership of the Labour Friends of Israel. That body was the subject of 'Byers plots a comeback with pro-Israel pressure group' by The Times', Political Editor, David Cracknell, which included the following: 'Stephen Byers is bidding to make an early political comeback just ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 108 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-16.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 55) Summer 2008 Last| Contents| Next Issue 55 Cock-up, conspiracy, or both? Israel and the Clash of Civilisations Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East Jonathan Cook London: Pluto Books, 2008, £14.99, p/b Was the invasion of Iraq a disastrous cock-up by the Americans and British, and by the Pentagon in particular? There certainly is a long line of people from within or close to the British and American states asserting this in various forms in the ongoing blame game. To give just a few examples: The Daily Telegraph carried a piece by Sean Rayment, its Defence Correspondent, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 94 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-47b.htm
